Note to myself:
02/06/04
Just
viewed a longer version of the Apache clip
at:
http://simmeringfrogs.com/video/apache.avi
I
was hoodwinked by viewing the video that had the
first minute
clipped off. Hoodwinked for certain.
I have viewed the longer
version about 4 times with different levels of brightness, slow-mo
etc. There is something resembling a rifle or a rifle in a sheath.
Strings or cords dangle from one end as she carries it into the
field.
It could also be an umbrella for use when the sun comes
up to mount on
the tractor. The pickup driver is a woman, wears a
dress well below
the knees.
A rolled up carpet, if these
people eat on the ground at mealtime.
It was mentioned a
prayer rug might have been dropped off so the
person could face
Mecca and pray when the time came in the morning.
Who
knows.
From the beginning:
A
small Toyota PU arrives, she gets out, talks to the thin man who was
at the large truck who walks to the Toyota to converse.
She
does a quick 360, looks around the area a bit, then talk more.
Then
she gets the object out of the truck front seat, runs over to the
edge of the cultivated field, runs beyond the edge of where the
tractor has last made it's rounds by 6 to 7 paces, inside the
uncultivated area.
Drops the object and returns to the PU.
The
width of each cultivation pass by the tractor is about 2 paces.
She
Seems a bit rushed, might be hiding something, the Apache Crew sure
was convinced, double triple convinced on more than caffeine I'd say
convinced.
To be fair, they are hired to kill people and break
things.
She returns to the truck, seconds later thin man runs
out near the
area and leaves a thermos of coffee or something warm
in the furrow
one row outside the edge of new cultivation (2
paces) thin man
returns, the tractor is still not back. thin man
goes out again,
tractor must be getting close, makes quick gesture
toward tractor with
hand, like "come on in" he runs back
to PU, woman runs out to greet
tractor, thin man stays back half
way. Tractor stops short of thermos
and suspect object by 20+
feet, woman greets man, motions for him to go towards pickup, he
exits and gets halfway across when he gets "smoked", at the
same moment she is checking oil or something on tractor, pulls off
her scarf and waves it almost twice when she gets it, thin man is out
of the view, he is picked up on later inspection by the chopper crew
near front right side edge of Big truck, Truck and thin man gets it,
thin man rolls in agony to right and is hit, They finish him off
after a few moments more as well the guilty Toyota PU. Christmas is
coming.
The agents of Helliburton were probably justified in
their Christian
Endeavor, since this was just prior to Christmas.
The weapon, if it
is a weapon, is still out in the uncultivated
area in the field
ahead of the wreckage and to the left, ditto the
short warm Object ( a
Thermos ? or a Grease gun? ) on the
right.
I can only imagine if a young Saladin were to come up
on this scene
of carnage and smoking wreckage, if the so called
Missile, RPG, rifle,
whatever was still out there, I imagine he
would have no trouble
figuring out who to use it on. I don't know
if he could use an
umbrella or a prayer rug for
anything.
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02/05/04
What
seest thou ?
Watch it with the sound off a few times,
only then, listen to the exchange between the agents of change.
You
might have to adjust brightness settings on your mpeg player, you are
looking at HEAT versus cooler objects.
It is called FLIR
technology. -Forward Looking Infra Red.
I might add the light
objects are hotter, dark is cooler.
Tis not the kind of
picture one is used to looking at, in more ways than one. Clear
children from the
room.
http://simmeringfrogs.com/video/apache-kills.mpg
My Observations:
The tractor on the left
is about 40 hp. give or take, the exhaust pipe is left-of-center, hot
as hell. The tractor has just stopped.
The hand gestures are
universal, unmistakable to anyone who has ever worked on a farm,
a
civilized person (city dude) or a calloused gang banger might miss
the obvious. Too many Arnold movies.
I have sat on a tractor like
this a thousand times.
Tired, vibration massaged, hungry, grateful
to see my relief driver and eat some grub.
It could have been me.
Pop is being motioned to get off the tractor by a woman, She
hops, skips, and runs to him.
(His wife? A Daughter? -"go
over to the truck, dinner is waiting,,,") she then circles
around
the front of the tractor, reaches in to check the oil, &
perhaps is about to mount the tractor when Pop is "smoked".
She hesitates, confused, takes marginal cover, waves a scarf. I
surrender?
Then she gets it. Next, the person by the truck is "found".
Obviously, these are Terrorists planting wheat, or dare I say it,
barley or oats. No body armor, no helmets, no weapons are returning
fire, they were unconcerned, going about an ancient business,
-feeding the world.
Trying to.
"Crime does not
pay, Neither does Farming." It used to be a joke. I'll no longer
laugh at hearing that one liner.
Note: See
the contour lines to the right of the tractor? -the ground has just
been turned over as the tractor has made several trips around the
field, the warmest ground is directly behind the cultivator-seeder,
or perhaps the implement behind the tractor is a harrow.
The view
of the larger area must have been unmistakable, -a field with a
pipsqueak tractor circling around and around, churning up warmer soil
from just below the surface, The sun has been down a while.
What
were these chain gun maniacs thinking? (Note to Phil: Enjoy your
cheap gas.)
There is more, What seest thou?
My Home
Page http://simmeringfrogs.com/
other
sources:
http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000787.php
also
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_war.html#007431
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/apache_video_040109-1.html
Also,
thanks to Len at http://blackopradio.com/news.html